The F5 Go Redirector

A simple service for redirecting mnemonic terms to destination urls.

Features include:

• anyone can add terms easily
• regex parsing for "special cases" (using regular expressions)
• automatically appends everything after the second slash to the destination url
• tracks and displays term usage frequency on frontpage with fontsize
• variables allow destination URLs to change en masse (e.g. project name)

Required Packages

python-cherrypy3 python-jinja2

Tips

To run, execute go.py and go to localhost:8080 in a browser.

backup go database regularly

    $ ./go.py export
    $ backup newterms.txt

To install as a local service on OSX

1. Clone the repository

2. Change to scripts/osx where the venv will be created $ cd scripts/osx

3. Create a virtual environment under scripts/osx $ python -m venv venv

4. Activate the virtual environment $ source venv/bin/activate

5. Install dependencies $ pip install -r ../../requirements.txt

6. Install the plist file to /Library/LaunchDaemons $ sudo cp com.f5.go.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons/

7. Start the service $ ./start.sh

Either that's it, or /tmp/f5go.err is your new friend.

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contributed by Saul Pwanson